I Moved to NYC

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  • The people are friendlier. Strangers talk to me everywhere I go: in the subway, at the gym, in the elevator. In SF, people have more boundaries, or they’re respectful of the boundaries they imagine you have. Corollary: In NYC, you don’t end up feeling like you’re distracting someone from their phone (as you sometimes do in SF).

title: “I Moved to NYC” author: “prigoose.substack.com” url: ”https://prigoose.substack.com/p/i-moved-to-nyc” date: 2023-12-19 source: hypothesis tags: media/articles

I Moved to NYC

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  • The people are friendlier. Strangers talk to me everywhere I go: in the subway, at the gym, in the elevator. In SF, people have more boundaries, or they’re respectful of the boundaries they imagine you have. Corollary: In NYC, you don’t end up feeling like you’re distracting someone from their phone (as you sometimes do in SF).